Historians
Live on TV: history at work
The making of a TV historian
Grappling with evil
Historians are better placed to explain malicious acts than philosophers, who strive to subordinate them to reason
My eighteenth century life
Black’s History Week, with Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
The dismal state of British defence
The UK’s defence strategy is a combination of hope and vibes
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
